[throwaw12]

> But the original repository has almost 4,000 stars, and surely, 4,000 developers can’t be wrong?

This is such a negative messaging!

Let's check star history: https://www.star-history.com/#forrestchang/andrej-karpathy-s...

1. Between Jan 27th and Feb 3rd stars grew quickly to 3K, project was released at that time.

2. People star it to be on top of NEW changes, people wanted to learn more about what's coming - but it didn't come. Doesn't mean people are dumb.

3. If OP synthesized the Markdown into a single line: "Think before coding" - why did he went through this VS Code extension publishing? Why can't they just share learnings and tell the world, "Add 'Think before coding' before your prompt and Please try for yourself!"

PS: no I haven't starred this project, I didn't know about it. But I disagree with the authors "assumptions" about stars and correlating it to some kind of insight revelation

[roywashere]

I just packaged the extension for the fun of it! And I do want people to try for themselves, that is the point. About people that are not dumb; surely many people are not dumb; many people are very smart indeed. But that does not prove there are no dumb or gullible people!

[throwaw12]

thanks for responding and sharing your perspective.

What I would say, you could have omitted some negativity or judgement from your post about 4k devs starring something because it looks simple, because they might have different intentions for starring.

Here is another great example of 65K "not wrong" developers: https://github.com/kelseyhightower/nocode - there is no code, long before AI was a trend, released 9 years ago, but got 65K stars! Doesn't mean devs "not wrong", it means people are curious and saving things "just in case" to showcase somewhere

[joe_fishfish]

Nocode is obviously a banter repo and people starred it because made them laugh.

[zihotki]

I wonder if someone could explore creating a standalone product out of that markdown, just for the fun of it.

[exitb]

Perhaps a cool wall art sticker? "In this house we don't assume. We don't hide confusion. We surface tradeoffs."

[roywashere]

Let's start a company and raise money from investors!!